On Monday, 2010-06-21, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Monday 21 June 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Monday, 2010-06-21, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > > On Monday 21 June 2010, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > > > On Monday, 2010-06-21, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > > > > I'm flabbergasted. I thought I understood where and how > > > > > Kontact/KAddressbook saves contact data, i.e. in > > > > > ~/.local/share/contacts. So it says in the properties for my > > > > > "Personal Contacts" address book. Well, if I change any contact > > > > > information, Kontact does save it somewhere, as the change is > > > > > still there are a restart. But the change does *not* show up in > > > > > that directory. > > > > > > > > > > The address book is not marked as "read only" and the directory > > > > > is writable. KDE is from current unstable. > > > > > > > > That sounds like a bug, the resource should have written the file > > > > moments after the contact got added to Akonadi. > > > > > > > > Can you run "akonadiconsole" and check what the status of the > > > > resource is? When you click on it, the bottom section should show > > > > something like "Status: Online, Idle" > > > > > > The resource is online, idle an has been every time I looked. In > > > the meantime, I've restarted Kontact multiple times, but as far as > > > I can tell from the modification times and file contents in that > > > directory, changes are not written. Neither are they picked up, > > > when I change one of the .vcf files there manually. > > > > Can you check on the second tab, when you click on the folder of the > > personal contacts resource, if all entries listed on the right hand > > side have a "remote id"? > > All but one entry have remote ids. The one missing an id is the one I > created for testing previously. I don't think I have created any other > contacts recently. No remoteId means it hasn't been processed (or not processed correctly) by the resource. No idea why that happend though. > > > So, the interesting question remains: where are my contacts? > > > > It seems they are currently only in the cache. > > You can try this: > > create a vcard resource, chose any filename. > > > > Copy the contacts to that resource. > > I have created a single file vcard resource, copied all the contacts > there and deleted them from the original resource. Then I have copied > everything back and re-sync'd the resource and now, apparently, it keeps > the directory contents synchronized. So now it works, although I can't > say exactly why. Ah, good. At least you didn't lose any data. Cheers, Kevin
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